Title: <scp>Sebastian</scp> <scp>Mitchell.</scp> <i>Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood.</i>
Abstract:Sebastian Mitchell’s Utopia and Its Discontents was first published in hardback in February 2020, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a global health e...Sebastian Mitchell’s Utopia and Its Discontents was first published in hardback in February 2020, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a global health emergency and one month before the first national lockdown was introduced in the UK. The term ‘dystopian’ has never perhaps been more commonly used to label a period of history than our own time; even before the pandemic, dystopia was frequently identified as a defining characteristic of the age and of contemporary literature. ‘At present’, Ursula Le Guin wrote in her 2015 essay ‘Utopiyin, Utopiyang’ ‘we seem only to write dystopias’. The utopian tradition has, of course, always contained an element of dystopia or anti-utopia within it, as Le Guin states in that essay and as Mitchell explores in his new book, Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood. In Utopia and Its Discontents, the relationship between utopia...Read More
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-03-04
Language: en
Type: article
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